I don't think I truly ever regretted selling a poster- maybe I have a little dealer in me. Most of the times I sell posters to trade up to something I really want, so I'll gather a few lesser posters and help snag that holy grail. Both Bruce and Grey have helped me with my quests and now I have some nice posters to proudly display...no Frankenstein or Dracula but pieces I've always admired. Truth of the matter turns out, there is always a holy grail and once the clouds part and the ray of sunshine illuminates that prized piece and it's in your hands, the feeling of excitement fades rather quickly for it's the hunt that's the exhilarating part.
I recently looked my walls and made a decision. See I like the posters I have framed hanging in various rooms of my house...what I didn't like was the bunches of posters in the closets, never being displayed, basically being collected without a sense of purpose in life. So late last year I made almost a life changing decision - I sold most of my stored collection realizing it was never going to make the walls of fame. I turned that cash (a nice size chunk no less) into something I really wanted...and it wasn't another poster. It was a bar. A bar almost like the one I was raised in...well spent most of my life in...and not on the drinking end...the serving end. So now I have a full working late 19th century apothecary bar complete with two taps, ice machine, dishwasher, fridge, and a ton of scotch and other libations of choice and I have my posters to thank for that. I spent over 20 years collecting most of those posters and they just took up space in the closet...what I got in return was a place we use every weekend even weeknights, a place for family and friends to hang, a place to relax, a place to watch the game...a place to see some of my posters on display. Who knew the power of posters? Now that my closets are bare again I'm sure there are a few new pieces on my horizon....and who knows just what they might be turned into this time around. From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Bruce Hershenson Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:55 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] The One That Got Away Good topic! I have tens of thousands of pressbooks in my collection, and I have a firm rule to never sell any I don't have a dupe of. I have turned down some incredible offers for ones from "specialists" (a Chaplin collector want's this one, a Harlow collector wants that one, etc). My logic is that once I start selling, I might keep going, and of course the ones I would sell would be the absolute hardest ones to ever get back. Well one day about ten years ago I let Morrie Everett, a man who could sell ice to Eskimos or hot coffee to the Devil himself, talk me into selling him the pressbook for Trouble in Paradise. Of course I regretted it the next day, and I have looked for it relentlessly, but no luck. But at least that was the ONLY non-dupe pressbook I have ever sold and that is the one that got away (for me)! Bruce On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Rix Posterz <rixpost...@aol.com<mailto:rixpost...@aol.com>> wrote: About 25 years ago, I sold a "Return Of Dr. X" 1/2 Sheet (Bogart, 1939) because I needed the money to pay bills, I've sold many better posters since then, but at that time I was really, really into collecting,,,this was way before I started selling in MCW, on eBay or otherwise. For some reason, selling that poster still remains to this day as one of the only regrets that has stayed with me through the years. After I started dealing the stuff, my whole reality slowly changed where I'd get over selling a piece from my collection fairly quickly. But this was back when I was just a collector. Many months and even years later, I was thinking about "the one that got away".... Rick In a message dated 5/23/2012 3:31:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, gkud...@rocketmail.com<mailto:gkud...@rocketmail.com> writes: Of all the movie posters I've had in my life, the ones I miss the most are some Japanese fabric banners used to line buildings and streets advertising a film. I got these in the early 70's. 3 were of no-name B movies, but the 4th was for Akira Kurasawa's Dodeskaden.... It wasn't their value so much as they were great looking rectangular flags -- I think they were 2'x6', maybe longer. What poster do you regret not having anymore? 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